The Wildlife Conservation Society’s Adirondack Program is asking for volunteers to assist with its WildPath citizen science project.

WildPath hopes to enlist people to snow track to provide date about where wildlife are crossing roads in several towns in the Black River Valley. The results will be used to help make decisions on maintaining and enhancing habitat connectivity between the Adirondacks and Tug Hill.

Two free workshops will take place for volunteers. No experience is necessary. The first will be held Saturday at the Wild Otter Fish & Game Club in Woodgate. The other will be held the next day at the Black River Forest Campus.

Participants will receive training in how to read and interpret wildlife tracks, with a classroom introduction and indoor and outdoor tracking exercises. Volunteers will be asked to survey mile-long stretches of road in the towns of Steuben, Remsen, Boonville, Forestport and Ava.

Those interested may register by calling 518-|891-8872 or by emailing Leslie Karasin at lkarasin@wcs.org.

Meeting to discuss Safe Act planned

The North Country Friends of the 2nd Amendment will hold an informational meeting on the New York Safe Act and other proposed legislation Jan. 7 at the Rome Polish Home.

The meeting will be a discussion of the Safe Act and its implications for firearms owners. It starts at 7 p.m. The Polish Home is at 415 South George Street.

Additional information is available at www.NCF2A.com.

Massett featured in magazine

Many local hunters know of Jim Massett from his deer hunting seminars with Joe DiNitto of Marcy.

Massett has a well-deserved reputation as one of the great Adirondack deer trackers, and he and DiNitto always get hunters charged up when attend one of their programs.

Massett is one of the veterans hunters featured in The End Game, about end of the season deer hunting, in the December-January issue of Field & Stream.

He has some solid advice for those willing to put in the time and effort to track late-season bucks, but the bottom line, as he says, is this: “You just need to have a little more determination than the next guy.”

New hunting photos in gallery

We have some new hunting photos in our gallery on uticaod.com/sports/outdoors, including one from my camp – but not one of me! We’ll have more on the stories behind the photos next week, but you can look at them now.

And if you have a good hunting photo or story, let us know.

Trap over for season at Camden

The Camden Fish & Game Club has ended its trap shooting program for the season.